Sheet Music by Women Composers for String Ensemble: Versatile Works

I grew up in a very beautiful part of the world, the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which used to be a center for copper mining but is now a wonderful wilderness of forests, lakes,...

Long Pond is a beautiful small lake in Cape Cod, where I have spent a lot of time. I wanted to write a piece that evoked a lovely few days in that specific place. It starts with the full moon rising o...

In March 2023 I heard a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra of Górecki’s Sorrowful Songs, and it reminded me of Barber’s famous Adagio for Strings. At the time I was writing my Eleventh String Q...

A suite of 5 short "excursions" inspired by the hiking trails and open land in the composer’s home town of New Canaan, Connecticut.  Selections of Henry David Thoreau texts have been included in the m...

The piece opens with the strings swaying between two notes that are either right next to each other or 15 tones apart but the interplay of these two notes sets each instrument in sympathetic vibration...

Anea is an invented name for a music-crystal modelled on an ionic crystal. It is a piece written in three independent and individual movements which can be played separately or together.Seed I and See...

The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leip...

In this work, the quartet becomes a single composite instrument. This instrument cannot play individual sounds but rather composite gestures, of which the initial impulse linked to the production of a...

Fletch; the feather placed on the arrow, providing the arrow with the capacity of flight; the feathered vane towards the back of the arrow, used to stabilise during flight. ME f. OF flech(i)er f. flec...

Fletch; the feather placed on the arrow, providing the arrow with the capacity of flight; the feathered vane towards the back of the arrow, used to stabilise during flight. ME f. OF flech(i)er f. flec...

The full score to the Phantasy Quartet composed by Imogen Holst in digital sheet music format.

The string quartet parts to the Phantasy Quartet composed by Imogen Holst in digital sheet music format.

Streicher pur für Streichorchester ist ein Stück voller Energie, Vitalität und Phantasie. Streicher pur ist in drei Sätzen angelegt und dauert etwa 12'30 Minuten. Die beiden Außensätze sind rhythmisch...

Streicher pur für Streichorchester ist ein Stück voller Energie, Vitalität und Phantasie. Streicher pur ist in drei Sätzen angelegt und dauert etwa 12'30 Minuten. Die beiden Außensätze sind rhythmisch...

Das ambitionierte viersätzige Trio ist voller Vitalität und atmet eine ausserordentliche Experimentierfreude, die auf die spezifischen Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten der Gattung gerichtet ist. In der k...

With the movements following the sequence allegro moderato, scherzo allegro, andante cantabile, allegretto finale, the slow movement is the third. It is an extended variation movement modelled on a ca...

Herausgegeben von Jeannette La-Deur Die GEDOK (Verband der Gemeinschaften der Künstlerinnen und Kunstförderer e. V.) Karlsruhe startete im Februar 2012 ein auf mehrere Jahre angelegtes Projekt mit dem...